Kansas man dies avoiding car during police chase

The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Manhattan man died when the vehicle he was riding in ran off the interstate to avoid a car being chased by a patrol trooper.

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Posted Apr. 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM

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Posted Apr. 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM

Junction City, Kan.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Manhattan man died when the vehicle he was riding in ran off the interstate to avoid a car being chased by a patrol trooper.

The patrol says the accident Wednesday evening on Interstate 70 in Junction City killed 53-year-old Jake S. Black. He was a passenger in a car that went off the interstate to avoid a vehicle going west in the eastbound lanes of the interstate.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/17eX7Pl ) the driver of the wrong-way car was not injured and was arrested at the scene. The driver and another passenger in the car Black was in were taken to Geary Community Hospital for treatment.